Post a Comment. Kola nuts, as well as palm-wine, is constantly mentioned in the book, especially during ceremonies, to focus on the traditional hospitality of the Ibo people. All social and cultural practices find their justification in the notion of family, either supporting or distorting it.
One of these social customs embodied in the kola nut as well as the language used in its blessing before consumption, is depicted in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to show both its importance and the civility with which the Igbo people conducted their daily routines or affairs from time imemorial.
With this novel, he invites mostly people of colour as well as his own people to read his story as something marked by the history of mistreatment, disenfranchisement, and dispossession to mean that race and ethnicity are not erasable marks; rather, they are the most compelling and effective determinants of cultural difference and literary specificity: language carries the idiosyncratic stamp of the individual and the mark of a nation as well.
Thus, the Kola-nut ceremony is among the things which the Igbo deemed very important at any formal or informal gatherings and an apology given for its unavailability. The novel depicts details about life in an African culture much different from Western culture. In this chapter, Achebe reveals the following aspects of Igbo culture:. Legends and traditions the fight with a spirit of the wild by the founder of their village Symbols of honor titles. Social rituals kola nuts, alligator pepper, chalk, small talk, and proverbs.
In his goal to demonstrate the complexity and sophistication of Igbo society, Achebe gradually introduces these details when they are relevant to the story. Chapter 1 describes Okonkwo's principal accomplishments that establish his important position in Igbo society.
These details alone provide insight into Okonkwo's character and motivation. Driving himself toward tribal success and recognition, he is trying to bury the unending shame that he feels regarding the faults and failures of his late father, Unoka. Essentially, Okonkwo exhibits qualities of manhood in Igbo society. Familiar with Western literature and its traditional forms, Achebe structures Things Fall Apart in the tradition of a Greek tragedy, with the story centered around Okonkwo, the tragic hero.
Aristotle defined the tragic hero as a character who is superior and noble, one who demonstrates great courage and perseverance but is undone because of a tragic personal flaw in his character. In this first chapter, Achebe sets up Okonkwo as a man much respected for his considerable achievements and noble virtues — key qualities of a tragic hero.
Okonkwo's tragic flaw is his obsession with manliness; his fear of looking weak like his father drives him to commit irrational acts of violence that undermine his nobleness. In the chapters ahead, the reader should note the qualities and actions that begin to reveal the tragic flaw in Okonkwo's otherwise admirable actions, words, ideas, and relationships with others. At the end of Chapter 1, Achebe foreshadows the presence of Ikemefuna in Okonkwo's household and also the teenage boy's ultimate fate by referring to him as a "doomed" and "ill-fated lad.
Although his parents were both Christian, which was a religion brought upon by. The promising thoughts of people can lead to positive outcomes. The occasional praiseworthy entity is given momentary applause, but felicitations are short-lived and quickly forgotten.
These statements refer just to politics, so one can imagine the rightful indignation by twentieth-century African writers when their work is largely ignored in favor of such enlightening fare as Heart of Darkness. One writer, Chinua Achebe, seeks to change this view by.
While this theme is visible in society, it is also evident throughout many works of literature. That is, until those things start to damage them. And slowly, but surely, the damaging starts to turn to destruction. By the time they realize their mistake it is too late. It centers around Okonkwo, a Nigerian man from the clan of Umuofia, who holds power.
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